"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

Enemy, Excellence, Fighting

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"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

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"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

George Orwell, British Author

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"This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal."

James Bovard, American Author

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"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners."

Dennis Ross, American Diplomat

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"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

Enemy, Enemies

"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."

Arthur Bloch, American Author

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"Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation."

Francis Parker Yockey, American Writer

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"The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution."

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"When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce."

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"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious."

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"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."

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"Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend, march swiftly to places where you are not expected."

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"For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak."

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"All warfare is based on deception."

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"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."

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"Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength."

Wisdom

"A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return."

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